From September 25 to 27, 2026, the new literary festival Maillage will take place at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris for its inaugural edition.
This festival aims to circulate stories and artistic forms, giving voice to a plurality of perspectives around the themes of migration, exile, memory, and identities.
The program includes novels, poetry, comics, music, performances, and workshops, with special attention to African and diasporic literatures.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is the guest of honor for this inaugural edition.
The choice of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, a site marked by French colonial history, also prompts reflection on memory and contemporary issues related to these themes.
Gladys Marivat, journalist and literary critic, leads this project and discusses it with Fatimata Wane during a broadcast on France 24.